Joan_Hanham,_Baroness_Hanham
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, CBE (née Spark; born 23 September 1939) is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.
She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2013,[2] and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1989. She was succeeded by Cllr Merrick Cockell, who became leader in April 2000.[3]
She was made a Life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 15 July 1999.[4] That same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris. She retired from the House of Lords on 22 July 2020.[5]